On April 25, 1917 a star was born Ella Fitzgerald , She was born in Newport News, VA and raised in New York . Ella and Her Mother Temperance Fitzgerald where homeless for some years before she got her big break, In 1934 . She appeared the Apollo theater in Harlem winning a contest and got discovered by a big artist . http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ella-fitzgerald Years later she was called “The First Lady of Song,”. But growing up in New York, She was inspired by “ Shake hips” Tucker Learning his moves and songs with her friends . Her progress spanned so many decades and so many movements, from the big-band of the 1930s, to bebop in the 1940s, into the golden age of the standard in the 1950s . She was a master of technique, able to
